I make three versions of this chapter, all of them embarrassing. I hope this one will not make you vomit.
In the manga, Ichigo's fullbring awakening and Inoue's meeting with tsukishima happens in the same day, I change that in this story. Very minor, don't think about it too much.
Anybody complaining about the change? Calm thyself, ye who enter here.
Chapter 03: Hardworking Spirit
Ichigo's Room, Night
For Ichigo, things got weirder after awakening his fullbring.
Ichigo heard Rukia and Renji's voice... from the combat pass. Ginjo assured him that there is nothing to be worried about. For Ichigo, however, assurance from Ginjo is as relieving as taking a dump while having a diarrhea, you will shit again later.
One thing, though, managed to catch Ichigo's interest. It is what Ginjo said next
"After each battle, whenever you touch your combat pass, the memories were engraved into its soul"
In other word, imprinted memory.
'It doesn't feel like memory' Ichigo mused, while looking at his combat pass. He knows his memory, especially from those times.
Ichigo shakes his head, this will get him nowhere.
'First thing first, regain my power' Ichigo grip the combat pass tightly, not wanting to waste this chance.
Later, when he had drifted off into the land of dreams, the combat pass, still resting in his hand, emitted red-black reiatsu that seeps through his skin, finding a way into his soul.
In one of the spaces between dream and reality, in the only place a shinigami can truly call themselves God, two dead spirits lies dreaming.
They are dead, for their master sacrificed them for the greater good. They are alive, for they are the master themselves.
One of them is an all white spirit. Hair, skin, shihakushÅ, all the same chalk-white color. Except for few parts like his nails and belt. Except for the color, he looks exactly the same as his King.
The other is the opposite, dressed in black and having a dark brown hair. He usually looks older, but the last time his master called him, he used his young look, which is why he remained in this form to this day from 17 months ago.
Both of them are Ichigo Kurosaki's spirit, focusing themselves on accumulating reiryoku and reishi, little by little, in order to be awakened once more.
That is, until a jolt of reiatsu suddenly awakened one of them...
The Dark One.
Inoue has been attacked. The attacker is the one who attacked Ishida before.
And for Ichigo's own good, his friends tell him nothing.
The Xcution confirmed it instead.
His mistrust to Urahara grows.
And once more, he can't do anything about it.
In the end, he releases all that pent-up frustration in his next training.
The Dark Spirit paced around his sleeping counterpart. His master is about to do something foolish, again.
He looks around the empty world, usually littered with skyscrapers or towns, but now are absolutely nothing. Final Getsuga Tensho swept everything away like a flood. Ichigo has absolutely nothing but him. The other still sleeping.
Nothing to save Ichigo from himself, except the dark spirit, which unfortunately hasn't been doing the job well enough. In fact, the white guy exceeded him in that aspect.
The black-clad spirit, feeling a slight tinge of pain coming from his left arm, roll his sleeve, revealing a black-skull mark that glow green.
While still a foolish thing to do, for the spirit at least, regaining his power is logical. The spirit even feels glad and content that Ichigo gradually uses other facets of his ability, instead of almost exclusively using what the other spirit represent.
What is very, very foolish is when Ichigo starts to endanger his own life in his own training.
Everything starts to fall apart, at least for Ichigo, when Inoue was attacked. The spirit never cared, not really, his concern is for Ichigo and Ichigo only, but for Ichigo it was the last straw that broke the camel's back.
And as he predicted, Ichigo gets really reckless in his training... Which brings him to the moment when the combat pass' soul begin to pull his own soul from his body, forcing the black-clad spirit to pull in return, since his master is too much of a bullhead to realize that.
"Foolish Ichigo" The black-clad spirit gritting his teeth while his master's raging at his sparring partner, the one with nasty kicks. Can't he realized that the combat pass' reiatsu almost consuming his hand?
With the danger continue to escalate at a frightening rate, the black-clad spirit decided to do something drastic, hoping that it won't compromise the fullbring.
If he can't prevent it from killing his master, then he will have to subjugate it.
So he said it...
The cursed word...
"Sklaverei"
Author's Note
That Cthulu shout out, so original, much good.
Kidding, I didn't realize that until I had written it XD
Anyway, short chapter, since I don't want to totally abandon it.
In middle of job hunting, harder than I think it would be. Oh well.
See you around in the next chapter.